Iram Javed
Iram has a Masters of Computer Applications, and established a career in software development and quality assurance – where she enjoyed a focus on data analysis. After moving to Sydney, she heard about the Data School, and quickly became hooked on Tableau whilst completing a whole bunch of Makeover Monday challenges. This led her to successfully applying to be a part of the DSAU4 cohort. In her spare time, Iram enjoys yoga and shopping and loves to keep studying and learning.
16 Weeks of training at The Data School – Reflective Blog
Finally, the time has come when I have finished 16 weeks of training at the Data School, where I learned a lot and had some amazing time with 6 other amazing people. And now it’s time to reflect on all that I have learned during these 16 weeks. Data Visualization:...
Dashboard week day 4 – Save our Forests
In today's Challenge, we had to build a story with any of the datasets from the world bank. Choosing a dataset and story was the toughest part of today's challenge. There was an enormous amount of data on the world bank website and some of the series had very scarce...
Dashboard week day 3 – PowerBI Dashboard for Titanic
Today was Day 3 of the dashboard week and we had been given the task to create a dashboard in PowerBI. Interesting thing was that we were not allowed to use Alteryx for any data transformation unless we absolutely need it. So here I started with the first step of Data...
Dashboard week Day 2 – Melbourne cup – Web scraping to dashboard making
Today was day 2 of Dashboard week and our task was to scrape data from Sportsbet.com and put a dashboard together. I have no clue about the terms used in horse racing hence the most challenging thing for me was to understand the terms. Overall it was an Data Prep...
Dashboard week Day 1 – NSW Boat Ramps
Today is our first day of the dashboard week and we are asked to use NSW opendata APIs. After looking for multiple API options I decided to work on Boat Ramp API. Using Alteryx I transformed the data. However, I wasn't sure about how I would be visualizing the data;...
Get Row/Column Headers in Tableau chart even when you don’t have any data for them
While preparing for my Hollywood's most profitable movie's Dashboard; for one of my charts, I wanted to show row headers even if they don't have any data for them. I had 6 Genre with the most profitable movies under them. However, not every year we had movies for all...
Presenting with Confidence
At Data school we have to present on every Friday, either to Client or for the Friday challenges. In the last couple of weeks, we have seen some good improvements in Presentation skills of our cohort. Every week we are being critiqued not only on the content we...
Why you should #MakeoverMonday
My #MakeoverMonday journey started while I was exploring the best ways to learn Tableau. I was going through the work of some of the Featured Authors on Tableau Public and was quite impressed by the quality of their work. It didn't pass my notice that many of them...
My Expectations from The Data School
On our first day we have been asked about our expectations from Data School, so here is what I expect from Data School to help me develop over these 16 weeks of the training- Presentation Skills To be successful in the market you need to know how to sell...